You use full consonant plus virama (094D;DEVANAGARI SIGN VIRAMA) to get a half consonant or ligature. PATNI will be spelled
PA + TA + virama + NA + vowel sign long I Anusvara is NOT a "half m" but an independent modifier sign (0902;DEVANAGARI SIGN ANUSVARA). HAMSA is spelled HA + anusvara + SA Read the chapter on Indian scripts in the Unicode standard (available as PDF file from http://www.unicode.org/). Stefan -- Stefan Baums Asien-Instituttet K�benhavns Universitet
